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Not just monkeying around!

Monkey Kingdom (2015) You see a troop of monkeys up high in the telephone cables walking a tightrope trying to get to the other side. You think nothing of the endeavour. Little do you realise that the tribe is actually a band of wounded soldiers trying to recoup their energy so that one day that they could reclaim their motherland. Well, these are some of the little things that you would learn after watching this documentary. That everyone, even low life animals with five senses, has a story to tell about their existence, their civilisation and their evolution. The film follows the behaviour of a barrel of macabre monkeys in a certain locale christened Rock Castle in Sri Lanka. There is an obvious hierarchical way of life, in that the supposed high-class ruling class, protector of the clan occupy the highest level of the rock. Perched high in the strata, they are privileged to savour the best of the fruits and the best of the food available the whet the primitive desire of any l...